Comedian Jackie Mason is under fire for calling Barack Obama a “schvartze”, a controversial Yiddish phrase used to describe black people that some say is a racist slur.
The comment came during a Thursday night performance at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency in New York City. The remark reporedly upset some attendees, who left the show in a huff. One person even remarked that Mason was “more offensive to the Jews than Madoff tonight.”
Mason was then confronted by TMZ.com the day after:
Mason has been at the center of racist controversy in the past. In 1988, Mason referred to producer Quincy Jones as a “white man with a suntan“ while doing a stand-up routine during the Grammys. In 1991, Mason called then-NYC Mayor David Dinkins “a fancy schvartze with a mustache”. Mason later apologized.
Mason has never really been a fan of Barack Obama, as can be seen in a recent v-log entry he posted:
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How dare this man tell the truth about Obango, yimach shmo vezichro, shem reshaim yirkov. He is not only a schwartze, he is dreck, meshugana, gefelach, mamzer,
Beauty is in the eye (ear) of the beholder. According to Wikilied On-line dictionary schwartze only means “black”. Add it to the list of verboten terms.
“The most probable translation: “black”
Wikiled thinks that right translation is:
schwarz (German – English)”
lol, it’s beyond me how a JEW can go around spewing racist crap.
Hey, everybody, if you don’t like what a Jew says, you’re a moron.
Jews are only White when they call Blacks “Schwartzen.”
lol, it’s beyond me how a Schwartze can go around believing these Jews are White.
there is nothing wrong with the word shravtzta ,its the coler black in yiddesh thats all
racist! blacks? should sue the jew
Jackie made all his money off enjoying different Religious and cultural aspects of primarily the Jewish people… He said “shvartze” big damn deal! what, is Obama pink? Please don’t talk about racism, I doubt there is a black comedian in the history of comedy that didn’t use derogatory terms towards whites.
Listen, enjoy the comedy, or turn turn your damn TV off.
And to 1jbarr2 and everyone else, did you know that the term “JEW” is derogatory. its like saying “whitey” Its “Jewish people”
He doesn’t know the difference between Kid Rock and Chris Rock?
I don’t care about Schwartze; but Jackie is a hack.
so in barak obama land, people aren’t allowed free speech or an opinion? chris rock said malicious and crude things about president bush and no one followed him around questioning his intent. grow up people, in case no one noticed, BARAK OBAMA IS BLACK.
Jackie said that White People don’t have freedom of speech. He is right, and a great White Man
It would be more correct and trendy to call Obama a “hybrid”.
After reading the Jackie Mason account of the arduous ordeal of being White and/or Jewish in America and of the “associated” denial of rights to which your “curse” dooms you.
I want to issue an apology to ALL of you “tired-of-it” and “had-it-up-to-here” White people for the misery that we have so callously heaped in your path. Our tiresome requests for civility and inclusion of opportunity at achieving the America Dream seems to have run it’s course. We should just quietly accept our lot in life and leave you to refer to and treat us in any manner that you deem “funny”. After all, YOU know which of these terms are offensive, while we simply react to them willy-nilly, either lacking the ability to recognize “humor” or having been genetically engineered MINUS…the COMEDY gene, which as everyone knows, MUST be prese238. I want to issue an apology to ALL of you “tired-of-it” White people for the misery that we have so callously heaped in your path. Our tiresome requests for civility and inclusion of opportunity at achieving the America Dream seems to have run it’s course. We should just quietly accept our lot in life and leave you to refer to and treat us in any manner that you deem “funny”. After all, YOU know which of these terms are offensive, while we simply react to them willy-nilly, either lacking the ability to recognize “humor” or having been genetically engineered MINUS…the COMEDY gene, which as everyone knows, MUST be present in order to build sound and healthy funny bones.
Yes, we object too much. We interfere with your right to Free Speech, even when you mis-state or don’t understand your Rights. So please accept this blanket apology get back to the “fun” post-haste. But, if you’d be so kind, please write and tell me…WHEN or IF…you hear a joke about me that you DO find to be…racially offensive ? Good day!
Posted at 2:20AM on Mar 17th 2009 by dreadneck
nt in order to build sound and healthy funny bones.
One thing I will say for the fossilian Mr. Mason. I appreciate the fact that he REFUSES to further insult me with either a tepid and scripted apology for comments that he obviously MEANT and has revealed as much on several past occasions. I also wish to extol his decision to NOT seek a short tour of a posh Rehab facility. While helpful in keeping poisons OUT of one’s body, they are pretty useless at keeping the poison in.
Yes, we object too much. We interfere with your right to Free Speech, even when you mis-state or don’t understand your own Rights. So please accept this blanket apology get back to your “fun” post-haste. But, if you’d be so kind, please write and tell me…WHEN or IF…you hear a joke about me that you DO find to be…racially offensive or in poor taste?
I won’t be holding my breath. Thank you and…Good day!
Oy…. Now if he called Obama a “Nappy Headed” Schwartze, that would be racist…. I meant if he said he wanted his Schwartze friends to rape Obama, that would be racist….
Oh forget it! Mason is a Jew, he’ll get a pass
@ dreadneck
No I wouldn’t want to have been born black today or any time. Among the other burdens, there is your burden of racism that you won’t let go of because it is an explanation for everything that goes wrong in your lives. If I was born black in this age, I would assess the great opportunities that this country opens up for me, even though my family might never have been subjected to slavery, and get to work doing the dull and self denying things that would advance me and my family.
Thanks for the many contributions that your race has made to the culture of this country and for the blood it has shed on the battle fields for our shared values, but it is time for a new direction to try to stop viewing the world through a racist filter.
There’s footage of Al Sharpton at TMZ reacting to this as well… I think he didn’t think it worthy to rally his race troops and unsheath his bull horn…
Obama is a schwartze and I am a real hunk of man. I am more handsome than Robert Redford and Brad Pitt. Does anyone want to kiss my schlong or my tuchis? Are you going to have a seder for pesach or are you going to fill your stomachs with chumitz and treyf?
My name is Cheryl D. Uzamere. I am the President and CEO of an up-and-coming business named African Diasporal Enterprises.
There is a great deal of controversy with regard to Jackie Mason’s use of the word “schvartze.” While European Jews are familiar with the significance of this word, few others understand its hidden meaning.
In the interest of letting the world know the spirit behind the word “schvartze”, I point all of you to the following web page in my website http://www.africandiasporalenterprises.com/curse_of_black_skin.html.
Also, please refer to http://www.ottmall.com/mj_ht_arch/v15/mj_v15i20.html#CDX for more detailed proof behind the spirit behind the word “schvartze:
In 1992 a book was published by a leading member of the Satmar community entitled Artzot Ha-Hayyim. On p. 52 he explains, and quotes other rabbis, that the reason Abraham Lincoln was killed was because he freed the blacks. this is also the reason why Kennedy was killed, i.e. because
he was good to the blacks. He continues by saying that this will be the fate of any who adopt a progressive attitude towards blacks, because they are meant to be enslaved. His source for this is Ham’s curse (the “leading member” to whom this refers is name Dov Ber Schwartze. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.)
The Legends of the Jews – Ginzburg, Vol. 1, p. 169: “The descendants of Ham through Canaan therefore have red eyes, because Ham looked upon the nakedness of his father; they have misshapen lips, because Ham spoke with his lips to his brothers about the unseemly condition of his father; they have twisted curly hair, because Ham turned and twisted his head round to see the nakedness of his father; and they go about naked, because Ham did not cover the nakedness of his father. Thus he was requited, for it is the way of G-d to mete out punishment measure for measure.”
T. Sanhedrin (Soncino), p. 745, 108b: “Our Rabbis taught: Three copulated in the ark, and they were all punished – the dog, the raven and Ham. The dog was doomed to be tied, the raven expectorates [his seed into his mate's mouth], and Ham was smitten in his skin.” (This is footnoted and the footnote reads: “I.e., from him was descended Cush (the negro), who is black-skinned.”
“The curse of Ham was something I learned of as a child and could not understand its origin from the words in Genesis. The curse of Ham was widely used by slave owners in the South to justify the enslavement of blacks. In my studies of slavery I was unable to find the basis. Only when I began studying Torah and various commentaries did I find the source. Somehow the rabbinic commentaries made their way into Christian culture and became an underpinning for anti-black racism.”
“Marc Shapiro writes: ‘How to defeat racism? Torah is obviously not the answer since so many Jews who spend their whole lives immersed in Torah are racists.’”
Israel’s premier newspaper, Ha Aretz, reported that Euro-Judaic, anti-schvartze racism is also a cause of the higher-than-average suicide rate among the Beta Jews (Ethiopian Jews) in Israel (please refer to http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2007/03/ethiopian_suici.html).
I also discovered that according to Talmud, Tractate Abodah Zarah 26b, it Jews are prohibited from reporting the wrongdoings of fellow Jews to Gentiles (please refer to http://www.come-and-hear.com/editor/moser-broyde/index.html). So also many Jews know about the Euro-Judaic myth regarding the curse of black skin, they will not report it to goy.
Now that I have let you know that I understand the spirit behind the word “schvartze”, can you please contact Jackie Mason and tell him the following:
1) Tell Jackie that slowly, but surely, Yahweh El Shaddai/Jehovah God (whom many of you erroneously call “Ha Shem”) has allowed a few of us Canaanites to discover the wickedness of a small percentage of the Euro-Judaic branch of the sons of Israel.
2) Tell Jackie that this wickedness, characterized by the blatant racism and hatred that is taught wicked Euro-Judaic rabbis to otherwise decent, but naive individuals in the Jewish community, is blanketed by the misuse and abuse of the expression “anti-Semitism.”
3) Tell Jackie that when wicked Euro-Judaic leaders use anti-Semitism to inure themselves from the consequences of their own wicked behavior, they display even greater anti-Semitism by using the innocent European Jewish community as shields.
4) Tell Jackie that there is a small, but growing number of Canaanites who now under this concept. While we have great love and sympathy for the Euro-Jewish community who experienced several holocausts over a period of hundred years of years, culminating in Nazi Germany’s last-ditch effort to rid Europe of the “Jewish problem” once and for all (see http://www.africandiasporalenterprises.com/no_anti_semitism.html), we will not allow the fear of your wicked leaders calling us “anti-Semites” to allow you and other to continue to refer to us with the same word that wicked Euro-Judaic leaders used to enslave my people.
Tell Jackie: The time is coming where there will be so many Canaanites and goy who will know that which I have taught you today that if Jackie, or any other member of the Euro-Judaic community uses the word “schvartze” in public and suffers harm based on the flippant use of the word that embodies the concept that rationalized the death and destruction of so many millions of my people, your community will be hard-pressed to find even one goy stupid enough to pity you.
The European Jewish community is now warned. Watch your mouth or suffer the consequences.
P.S. I am forwarding this correspondence to President Obama. In case any of you are interested, the White House’s fax is (202) 456-2461.